March 08, 2005

Handlebar Moustaches

I'm pleased to report that the handlebar moustache is alive and well in Fort Worth.

Among the gentlemen I spotted sporting a neatly-trimmed handlebar this weekend were

  1. The policeman who handled some drunk who tried to steal the hood off my truck.
  2. The guy that replaced the window the drunk broke while trying to steal my hood.
  3. The cutter at the barbecue joint we ate at while the window was replaced.
None of these moustaches were in tourist-facing environments (unlike the sheriff's deputies wearing spurs on Main Street), so I can only assume that they're a local fashion. For whatever my opinion on the subject is worth, I approve.

Posted by Ben Brumfield at March 8, 2005 12:45 PM
Comments

Those guys need The Handlebar Club.

Membership qualification: "a hirsute appendage of the upper lip, with graspable extremities"

Posted by: Bobby Farouk at March 8, 2005 01:08 PM

Hmmm -- those are a bit long. The ones in Fort Worth were more like this guy's, but without the scraggly hint of a beard. Also, replace the glasses and the tuft of hair with a crew cut and cowboy hat and you get the picture.

Posted by: Ben Brumfield at March 8, 2005 01:22 PM

Sorry about your window. People shouldn't steal truck hoods under the influence. Bad idea from all perspectives.

FWIW the guy who built a room on my parents' house in the '70s had a moustache with waxed and curled tips. And no sense of irony whatsoever.

Posted by: Martha Bridegam at March 8, 2005 04:36 PM